Medicaid Payments to Health Care Providers

States can cut back on Medicaid payments, administration says, By Robert Pear, February 25, 2013, New York Times: “The Obama administration said Monday that states could cut Medicaid payments to many doctors and other health care providers to hold down costs in the program, which insures 60 million low-income people and will soon cover many more under the new health care law. The administration’s position, set forth in a federal appeals court in California, has broad national implications as it comes as the White House is trying to persuade states to expand Medicaid as part of the new law…”